SOLOMON HUGHES recommends Sunjeev Sahota’s recent novel set in a trade union election campaign for its fresh approach to what unites and divides workers, but wishes the union backdrop was truer to life
AS A young person in Britain, the future may seem bleak. The job market is more and more precarious, there is an ongoing housing crisis and the cost of living is still on the rise and it is young people who bear the brunt of this.
At the same time, our public services are being completely decimated. As a representative of all young workers in Unison, Britain’s largest public services union, our members are overworked, their workplaces understaffed and they are underpaid.
Under the current system, young people are offered nothing more than a world that is embroiled in open war which is leading to further deaths, destruction, displacement and the danger of increased conflict. The ongoing Israeli assault on Gaza has seen thousands of children and young people killed.
MICAELA TRACEY-RAMOS explains how Britain’s largest union is putting pressure on the British government to recognise the Palestinian state and end its complicity with Israel’s murderous actions
In the conclusion of his two-part article, PETER MERTENS reveals that while global military spending hits $2.7 trillion with European arms company profits soaring 1,000%, €1 invested in hospitals creates 2.5 times more jobs than weapons



